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Akilles
I think he meant Albanians resemble Ancient Macedonians or Greek Macedonians I'm not sure if he meant todays Northern Macedonians.
The google translation isn't exactly 100% correct and I didn't post all parts but these are some sources used which I'm gonna check out, would be an advantage to actually speak some of these languages like Slavic, French etc to understand these texts.
[1] Michel Aubin, "From Serbian myth to Albanian nationalism", Le Monde, 5-6 April 198 1, p. 2.
[2] Georges Ostrogorskij, Serska Oblast posle Dušanove smrti ("The district of Seres after the death of King Dušan"),
Belgrade, 1965.
[3] On the Serbs, in particular, cf. H. Grégoire, "The Origin and the Name of the Croats and the Serbs", Byzantine,
17, 1945 and S. Novaković, "Srpske Oblasti X.-XI. veka" ("Serbian territories in the 11th century), Glasnik
Srpskog društva, 1880, p. 48.
[4] The bibliography on the Illyrians is considerable. It suffices to mention the archaeological collection "Illyria"
(6 published volumes, Tirana 1971-1976); The Illyrians and the Genesis of the Albanians, Tirana 1971 and The Acts of
the Conference of Illyrian Studies, in two volumes, Tirana 1974.
[5] S. Anamali and M. Korkuti, The lllyrians and the Genesis of the Albanians in the Light of Albanian Archaeological
Studies, in the collection bearing the same title, pp. 1 1-39; on linguistic data, cf. Eqrem Çabej,
The Illyrians and the Albanians, in the same volume, pp.41-52.
[6] B. Ćović, "Basic Material Characteristics of the Illyrians in their Central Area", Sarajevo Symposium, 1964,
p. 101. cf. S.Anamaii et M. Korkuti, The Illyrians and the Genesis of the Albanians, p. 35.
[7] S. Anamaii, "From the Albanian Civilization of the Early Middle Ages", The Illyrians… pp. 184-187.
[8] lbidem, p. 185, 192.
[9] AM Selichev, Slaviansko naselenie v Albanii, Sofia 1931, to be studied with caution, given the ardor of his
Bulgarian prejudices.
[10] S. Novaković, Zakonski spomenici srpskih država srednjega veka ("Legal Collections of Serbian States in the
Middle Ages"), Belgrade 1912, pp. 628-701.
[11] Cf. en particulier les ch. 77 et 82 du Code de Dušan (N. Radojčić, Code of Emperor Stefan Dušan, Belgrade
1960, pp. 57-58).
[12] J. Kantakuzen, History, Ed. de Bonn, 1, p. 55, t. 1, p. 279.
[13] Cf. Bokardus, Directory for passengers to be done, "Historians of the Crusades", Armenian historians, 11, pp.
484-485.
[14] Laonikos Chalkokondylis, History, Ed. E. Darko, Budapest 1922-1926, 1, pp. 277-278.
[15] Ibidem, 11, pp. 277-278.
[16] Hierax, Chronicle on the Empire of the Turks, Sathas; Biblioteca graeca, 1, p. 247.
[17] ldrisi Bitlisi, "Chronique sur l'empire des Turcs, fols. 188-190 (a)" ; in Selami Pulaha, The Albanian-Turkish
War of the 15th Century (Ottoman sources), Tirana 1968, pp. 134-138, 142.
[18] S. Pulaha, op. cit., pp. 251-252, 297.
[19] Published by Radonic, Gjuragj Kastriot Skanderbeg i Arbanija u XV. veku, Belgrade 1942, p. 2.
[20] Archives d'Etat de Dubrovnik, "Education and the Commission Levantis", 10, p. 84 v. (17 mars 1428).
[21] lbidem, XIV, f. 248 (January 5, 1448).
[22] Dukas, Turkish-Byzantine History, XXIII, 8th Ed. Grecu, Bucharest, 1959, pp. 179.
[23] Kemalpasazade, Chronique, f. 254 in Pulaha, op. cit., p. 191.
[24] Selami Pulaha, The Cadastral Register of the Shkodra Sandjak of 1458, vol. 2, Tirana, 1974.
[25] S. Pulaha, op. cit., pp. 31-32.
[26] lbidem, pp. 33-34.
[27] lbid., P. 34, has 15 villages in this case.
[28] S. Pulaha, op. cit., pp. 34-35. It should be noted that this is also the conclusion of the great Yugoslav historian [but
no, he was a Croat - FG], Milan Šufflay, killed in 1925 by the Ustashas [the Ustasis had no
reason to blame him; they were obviously pseudo-nationalists from the Great Serbs] (M. Šufflay, Povijest sjevernih
arbanaša, reprinted at Prishtina 1968, pp. 61-62).
[29] A. Hanžić, Nekoliko vijesti o arbanašima na Kosovu i Metohiji sredinom XV. vijeka ("Quelques informations
sur les Albanais de la Kosova et du Plateau de Dukagjin au milieu du XVème siècle", "Symposium on Skanderbeg", Prishtina
1969, pp. 201-209. S. Pulaha, "Albanian Element according to the Onomastics of the Regions of the Shkodra Sandjak
in the Years 1485-1582 ", Studime historike, 1972, 1, pp. 63 et suiv.
[30] See in particular the documents extracted from the Dubrovnik state archives and in particular the Book of
Accounts of Mihal Lukarević (M.Dinić, Iz Dubrovačkog arhiva 1; Belgrade 1957. Examples p. 65 ("Dom Marin de Antivaro",
" Andria Nicholich Arbanexo de Matia ").
[31] M. Dinic, op. cit., p. 68.
[32] lbidem, c. also the Dubrovnik State Archives, Pacta Matrimonalia II, f. 103 v. (December 11, 1459).
[33] Cf. I. Zamputi, Report on the Situation of Northern and Central Albania in the 17th Century, volume 1 (1610-1634),
Tirana 1968, et le rapport du visiteur apostolique Pjetër Mazreku en 1623-1624.
[34] L. von Thalloczy, "The Albanian Diaspora", Illyrian-Albanian Research (Vienna 1916), vol. 1, p. 314,
ss. In this article, from the archives of the place for the Karlovac, in the archives of the Joint Ministry of Finance,
Vienna, note VI, p. 25, 1739.
[35] This is what we can conclude from the memorandum of Vaso Ćubrilović, "The Expulsion of the Albanians" [Iseljavanje
Arnauta], written in 1937, which envisaged a massive transfer to Kosovo of the population of Kosovo. These problems
(and in particular the report written on the question in 1939 by Ivo Andrić, and the extent of Albanian emigration
to Turkey between the two wars) are dealt with by M. Roux, "Language and the State Power in Yugoslavia. The
Case of the Albanians ", Pluriel 22, Paris, 1980.